It was like losing an important weight-bearing bone, and I knew I would spend the rest of my life trying to figure out how to walk the streets without it.
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More Adam Rapp Quotes
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Ice congeals in the stomach. Frost spiderwebs in the lungs.
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I’ve never really felt that I’ve had the right hair cut, or had the right clothes.
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Criticism is really unevenly distributed in this town.
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And now we have all this access to public transportation, automobiles and jets and the Internet
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I think auditioning can be very reductive and I just hate how actors work really hard and most of them aren’t going to get the job, and I hate putting them through that.
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I don’t put big concepts on my work, and it’s all often about keeping actors in a room together and not letting them leave.
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Somewhere deeper than where they put your heart.
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You can always count on the New York Times to cut your legs off.
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I think there is a complicated side effect to overcoming evil in that we are forever changed by it.
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I grew up eating hamburger helper, macaroni and cheese, and drinking lots of milk, and looked at lots of cows; but I feel like a New Yorker now, I’ve lived here for sixteen years.
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We’re so easily distracted, but the world is still designed to destroy you. It just happens quicker and faster now.
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Somewhere so deep inside that the doctors can’t find it with all their machines and microcameras.
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Grief does not expire like a candle or the beacon on a lighthouse. It simply changes temperature. It becomes a kind of personal weather system.
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Obviously the power of the Times is discouraging. It’s killing new plays, demolishing one after another.
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You have to escape to survive, as you must survive to escape.
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I know that they want certain things and they’re in a certain room and they smell like this and they look like that.
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I find auditioning to be a very illusive process, where actors come in with this really big result with no process, so it’s a lie already at work.
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So I started to think like, “well if I’m going to fight against this, I should learn how to direct”.
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And you can’t go anywhere in the sky unless you have a plane or some kind of rocket.
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It’s strange, people have asked me what my schedule is and what is my process like, and I can’t even answer it.
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I know that something inevitable will happen.
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I think I’m a little more daunted by when the machinery of the play is really huge.
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My characters say things to each other that I get accused of not being able to say to my girlfriend.
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If I tried to write that it would just be false. Or I’d have someone enter with a machine gun.
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I appreciate good criticism and I think it’s really important.
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When I got inside, I just sort of stood there. There’s nothing stranger than the smell of someone else’s house
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